Department Of Civil Engineering I.I.T. Roorkee, Roorkee CE-102 Env. Studies Review Questions- 1 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. What is Ecology?

Why should we know about Ecology? What are the components of an Ecosystem? How does an Ecosystem function? Explain/comment on the following: Levels of organization Difference between population & community Structural & functional components of an ecosystem Difference between complete and incomplete ecosystem Operation of an ecosystem Difference between (i) food chain & food web (ii) autotrophs & heterotrophs Types of consumers & decomposers Ecological pyramids Limiting nutrients Basic steps of material cycling Reservoir pools for CO2 ,Nitrogen, & P Forms of nitrogen in an ecosystem Conservative and non- conservative pollutants Bioamplification and biomagnificatio

6. What is the significance of food chains &food webs? Explain through an example. 7. What is Kow and what is its significance? 8. What is biocncentration factor? Where is it used? 9. From the data given below, Data: Plankton to water partition coefficient for TCE =150,000 Smelt to plankton magnification factor = 7.0 Trout to Smelt magnification factor = 2.0 Concentration of TCE (trichloroethane) in water is 1.0 ppt, Calculate the concentration in Plankton, Smelt and Trout. 10. What is Biodiversity? What is the application of the concept of biodiversity to other systems? .